The Cost to Firms of Cooking the Books
Preprint
- 1 January 2005
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
We examine the penalties imposed on all 585 firms that were targeted by SEC enforcement actions for financial misrepresentation from 1978 - 2002, which we trackKeywords
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